What's your biggest regret?

I thought about buying about a thousand bitcoins when it would have costed me a hundred bucks. Never did though.

I really should have learned to drive in high school when I had the chance. No money->no car->no job loops have bit me quite a lot as an adult.

That's interesting. Half of my friends are in successful careers without a license
- You're probably in a major city, maybe even a hip coastal one or a European one, and not from rural Canada. Good for you, we're not all so lucky.
  Moving to a place more like that immediately was the original plan, but shit happens. And, well, my whole support system is where I grew up or close.

Marrying the wrong person

Being born in the USA

Posting

Lol something I'm not going to put on the internet

Probably a good idea :P

Not living up to my own potential. I've led a pretty uneventful life with few, if any, accolades. I know that I actually have the capacity to be excellent in certain regards, but I can't seem to force myself to actually put in the work. Doesn't help that I've been called lazy my entire life. Some therapists seem to think a "fear of success" is part of the pathology but I don't agree. I've been extremely intimate with failure my entire life, success is like the one thing I've never had and am craving daily.

I feel you.
In what regards?
- Professionally and creatively. To elaborate, I have two degrees that I've never ended up using and I've been working in customer service/tech support for the past twenty years. I've been at my current company in my current role for a full decade, and the lack of upward mobility is getting to me.

Letting my emotions ruin my career

I'm curious if you want to tell the story.
- I have taken long breaks in my education (a pretty good one) due to being lazy depressed (being depressed but not sad per se, having executive dysfunction).
  My friends have moved on from college and I am stuck. It always feels that my problems were not as important or as big to waste years of my life.
  I have accepted the fact that it is my life and it is not a race but sometimes I do feel that it would have been much simpler and better if I had just completed my education while being miserable because I was miserable anyways.
  I am kind of rambling because I don't think such a deep and vast topic can be explained in a comment.

Trusting that my guidance counselors would do their job. Not switching high schools because they didn't look very different.

My school refused to let me in more difficult classes I thought I needed for college even though I requested them, was recommended them by my grade school and even tested into them. I only found out recently that I test advance proficient, but they lied to me about when I was a student.

All because when I was in kindergarten, someone decided I had a reading disability.

I have this same story

your mom ,😥

Our shame unites us.
- So say we all

Waiting so long to cut off a toxic parent. Not spending more time with a good parent. Not going to therapy sooner.

In 2018 I was offered a job managing a retreat center on the shores of Lake Superior. The job would have been to keep the place looking nice and, very occasionally, cultivate a restful space for people who needed it.

I went and got a PhD instead. Not a huge mistake, but I’d probably have been happier with the retreat center.

Not standing up to the so-called friend who stabbed me in the back.

not fucking , not having a gf , not configuring my system , not having real friends

not configuring my system
and not saaaving everything

Going to college for a business degree where I'm now working a position that doesn't require it and still years away from paying my loan off.

I'm right here with you. Went into Psychology but had no idea that I was screwing myself over on loans - I couldn't afford to continue into a Masters which is pretty much required to work in the field.
About 15 years out and I'm still dealing with the debt for a degree I can't use and can't afford to continue.

I let too many people tell me how to live my life and tried too hard for their approval for too long.

Accidentally letting my sidekick find out that I poisoned brock

Yes.